Infocast Storage Week
Conference | February.25.2019 - February.27.2019
Hotel KabukiOrrick is proud to once again sponsor Infocast’s 2019 Storage Week and will participate in two panel discussions.
Les Sherman will be moderating a summit panel on Tuesday, February 26, titled, “Solar + Storage Goes Mainstream.” Les will host a panel on, among other topics, key market opportunities and challenges, performance metrics and other critical PPA provisions for solar + storage projects. Panelists will include Dan Cary, Vice President of Macquarie Capital; Kathy Lin, Vice President for Solar and Storage Technology of EDF Renewables; and Matt Stedl, Development Director of Energy Storage for Tradewind Energy.
Additionally, partners Rohit Sachdev and David Spielberg will be moderating a summit panel the same day, titled, “Storage Week Shark Tank.” This panel features active and savvy investors in energy and will respond to storage projects featuring a variety of technologies and business models, picking out which they consider winners and exploring how changing some parameters affect financing decisions. Panelists will include Ali Amirali, Senior Vice President of Starwood Energy Group Global; Ty Bowman, Vice President of Prudential Capital Group; Dan Cary, Vice President of Macquarie Capital; Matan Friedman, Co-Founder of Generate Capital; and Fred Zelaya, Director of Structured Finance for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group.
Infocast’s 2019 Storage Week will take a deep dive into structuring both standalone and co-located storage projects, and assess the opportunities emerging via state targets, new rules in organized markets and the needs of new customer classes.
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Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Power
- Solar Energy
- Wind Energy
- Energy Storage
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Les Sherman Partner
San Francisco
Chambers publications identify Les as a Leading Lawyer and report that clients say Les is an “icon in California in the renewables space”, has "notable expertise spanning solar and wind generation projects as well as battery storage development" and has “established a reputation as the go-to guy in California”. Chambers also reports that Clients say Les has "a brilliant mind," "his finger on the pulse of the market" and "a very good eye for detail when thinking through practical agreements and understanding how it is all going to work in practice". Clients note "he is one of the best PPA lawyers in the business." Les also is recognized by Euromoney, The Legal 500 and The Expert Guides as a Leading Lawyer in energy project development, M&A and finance.
Les represents many of the industry’s leading companies on project development, financing and M&A transactions for solar, wind, energy storage, biomass, gas and similar projects. Les has led the Orrick team’s thought leadership in the growing battery and hydrogen energy storage market, has published numerous articles on the topic, and has served as lead counsel on many of the largest storage and renewables+storage transactions completed to date.
Practice:
- Energy & Infrastructure Sector
- Energy
- Infrastructure
- Renewable Energy
- Wind Energy
- Energy Storage
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Rohit Sachdev Partner
San Francisco
Rohit has extensive experience in the solar, wind, energy storage, and biofuel sectors, and has advised on numerous award-winning transactions. He is recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global in the Projects: Renewables & Alternative Energy category. Rohit’s clients describe him as “excellent,” “knowledgeable,” “timely in his work,” “commercially-oriented,” “very plugged into the market” with a “great demeanor."
In recent years, Rohit's practice has focused particularly on project development and project M&A transactions. He has successfully negotiated many GWs of "physical" and "virtual" PPAs and tolling agreements, as well as a variety of construction, supply and other development arrangements. Rohit has also represented clients on the purchase and sale of renewables projects in various U.S. jurisdictions, as well as joint venture and other project asset arrangements. He has particularly focused on the development, financing and sale of domestic and international energy storage projects, including stand-alone, hybrid, front-of-meter and behind-the-meter projects.
Rohit co-leads Orrick’s South Asian Inclusion Network and served as a Fellow for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.
He started his legal career at an international law firm in New York, where he focused on project development and project finance transactions across the globe. Prior to law and business schools, Rohit was an investment banking analyst at Credit Suisse in San Francisco where he provided M&A and financial advisory services to technology companies in Silicon Valley.